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Table 3.

Compliance, time between the advice and the actual appointment with a specialist, and average age of the patient, sorted by referral indication.

Referral indication	n^a	Compliance, n (%)	Average time to appointment in weeks, (SD^b)	Average age of the child weeks, (SD)
(Imminent) functional impairment	19	18 (94.7)	2.6 (2.5)	12.6 (9.1)
Ulceration	19	18 (94.7)	3.4 (2.6)	13.5 (9.4)
Cosmetic impairment	18	17 (94.4)	3.9 (5.0)	55.5 (143.4^c)
Diagnostic	15	14 (93.3)	2.8 (3.1)	9.3 (5.3)

^an=number of patients

^bBased on available data in 33/71 cases.

^cOne patient with cosmetic impairment was 12 years. Excluding this patient the average age was 22.1 SD 21.8 weeks.